These are my short notes on how to run ComfyUI on an NVIDIA 5090 GPU. The Blackwell architecture has been released Q4 2024, and is supported by nightly >= 12.8 pytorch builds. If you get “CUDA error: no kernel image is available for execution on the device” or “NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 with CUDA capability […]
Short notes on how to install QEMU and Libvirt on Fedora Silverblue 42. Install packages and reboot: Start and enable libvirt daemon
Quick notes on how to mount NFS shared drives, on Fedora Silverblue 42. Install required packages: Add your shared drives to /etc/fstab: Reboot:
5090 GPUs require NVIDIA drivers version 570 and above. These are available as open source kernel drivers. This brief tutorial documents how to install them on Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite 42. Step 1: Update your kernel Step 2: Install required package sources, as per RPMFusion Configuration: Step 3: Install nonfree, tainted, package sources as per […]
These are my notes on how to install a D Programming Language compiler along with it’s package management tool Dub and how to set-up a first “Hello World” project on a Raspberry PI running Raspbian. I’ve chosen the GDC compiler due to its comprehensive architecture support (https://wiki.dlang.org/Compilers#Comparison), and ease of install: sudo apt-get install -y […]
PHP 7 introduces scalar type definitions: your function parameters can be of a given type, and function return type declarations ensuring your function will return results of a given data type. This can increase your code quality by enforcing a specific behaviour of your code, almost similar to how a strongly typed language does. However, […]
Recently, I have been experimenting with writing 3D games – mainly for mobile Virtual Reality. Today I though I might want to have a go at writing a desktop 3D game, and played with Electron, NodeJS and BabylonJS so I can write my code in JavaScript and use HTML5 to develop my own cross-platform 3D […]
PHPUnit and Selenium provide means for testing application functionality. But how can you test your application’s performance? Here Apache JMeter comes in handy, as a tool used for load testing functional behaviour and measure performance. JMeter is a desktop application, written in Java, made available as a package on most Linux distributions. It can be […]
This is a quick note on how to create a multi-user git server hosted on your own FreeBSD set-up, using the SSH protocol for reading/writing from/to repositories. Steps to follow (as ‘root‘): Install the ‘git‘ package: pkg_add -r git Create a group called ‘gitusers‘: pw groupadd gitusers Create a user called ‘gitserver‘, part of the […]
In the previous part of this article, I wrote an introduction to Node.js and Socket.Io; presenting a basic server and client communication model. In this entry I am writing an extension to the Server and Client JavaScript objects, to allow for Application Specific Events. This provides the basic framework to writing an application that routes […]